If you ignore the message this film has, it is quite enjoyable. There is suspense, a few interesting twists and some good performances. However, this all pales in comparison to the film's message.
Spoilers incoming: Here we have a smart young man who wants to be one of the rich elite, but does instead come from a family on the precipice of poverty due to the mothers illness. Their house is being foreclosed and the protagonist can't get a job he feels he is worthy of.
The protagonist then hatches a plan to get rich. He plans to screw over his "girlfriend" and her friend, two unstable poor people, one an emo chick and the other an anarchist. He plans to kidnap the grown children of some very rich people and ransom them for millions of dollars.
The kidnapping goes smoothly up until the emo chick kills one of the victims. Then the victims escape and the emo chick and the anarchist both end up dead; chick killed by the anarchist in a fit of rage after she couldn't find escapees and the anarchist by the protagonist to cover his tracks; the anarchist has a history of suicide attempts.
So the film ends with the protagonist, a murderer (anarchist), kidnapper and accessory to murder (rich kid, emo chick arguably), scot-free with millions of dollars in hand.
Message is basically the right-wing political dream: screw over the poor and defenceless (the emo chick and the anarchist needed help, but were instead unscrupulously used in a terrible manner), protect the rich (whoops one got killed, that is the real tragedy in this film) and run grinning to the bank. I hate this film with all my heart. 1/10
Spoilers incoming: Here we have a smart young man who wants to be one of the rich elite, but does instead come from a family on the precipice of poverty due to the mothers illness. Their house is being foreclosed and the protagonist can't get a job he feels he is worthy of.
The protagonist then hatches a plan to get rich. He plans to screw over his "girlfriend" and her friend, two unstable poor people, one an emo chick and the other an anarchist. He plans to kidnap the grown children of some very rich people and ransom them for millions of dollars.
The kidnapping goes smoothly up until the emo chick kills one of the victims. Then the victims escape and the emo chick and the anarchist both end up dead; chick killed by the anarchist in a fit of rage after she couldn't find escapees and the anarchist by the protagonist to cover his tracks; the anarchist has a history of suicide attempts.
So the film ends with the protagonist, a murderer (anarchist), kidnapper and accessory to murder (rich kid, emo chick arguably), scot-free with millions of dollars in hand.
Message is basically the right-wing political dream: screw over the poor and defenceless (the emo chick and the anarchist needed help, but were instead unscrupulously used in a terrible manner), protect the rich (whoops one got killed, that is the real tragedy in this film) and run grinning to the bank. I hate this film with all my heart. 1/10